Does anyone have any suggestions for motivating someone who justs wants to do his eight hours?

This sound more like a management problem.

Some people just aren't motivated by the intrinsic nature of their work. These people need clearly-stated objectives and constraints. It sounds like one of the requirements that management needs to lay on this guy is "though shalt test", and then follow that up with period reminders (or dings, or praise). There needs to be a feedback loop that has visible consequences for actions.

There can be a lot of benefit to an organization to having a person around who is friendly, knows their way around some big system, and can be trusted to do an acceptable job in a number of non-mission-critical areas. But their management needs to be clear on where the boundaries around their scope should be.

One way to motivate management is to put things in dollar terms. "Cleaning up after this guy is taking X% of my time. That translates to Y$. The consequences of my not doing this are Z."

In reply to Re: (OT) Motivating the Unmotivated Programmer by dws
in thread (OT) Motivating the Unmotivated Programmer by Ovid

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.